What program do you use to view the original document? Cora North Hills, CA ========Original Message======== Subj: [NISHNAWBE] New France, New Horizons Date: 12/19/2003 6:49:31 PM Pacific Standard Time From: jsfrmr@hotmail.com Reply-to: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com To: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Some of us will be interested in the following, cut-and-pasted from this week's Internet Scout Report: 4. New France, New Horizons: On French Soil in America [Adobe SVG Viewer] http://www.archivescanadafrance.org/english/accueil_en.html Almost 400 years ago, France created its first permanent settlement in what would later become Canada. In doing so, the French embarked on a pattern of discovery and extended settlement that would continue until Britain eventually took control of the region in the late 18th century. Designed to celebrate and explore this rich history, this site was created by the Library and Archives Canada and the Direction des Archives de France in order to bring together over one million digitized images of documents, maps, plans, and other visual material related to this long period of French involvement in this part of North America. Here visitors can view a virtual exhibition, browse a list of other institutional links, and last (but certainly not least) search the massive database. The database is quite user-friendly, as visitors can elect to search by year (or time period), institutional location of document, or collection. For example, typing in Montreal returns 2900 documents alone, including numerous maps, government correspondence, and a number of city plans. The SVG Viewer plug-in allows users to zoom in, rotate, and manipulate documents in a number of ways, and is a welcome addition to this already remarkable online resource. [KMG] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237